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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12984	A Bartholmew fairing for parentes to bestow vpon their sonnes and daughters, and for one friend to giue vnto another: shevving that children are not to marie, without the consent of their parentes, in whose povver and choise it lieth to prouide wiues and husbandes for their sonnes and daughters. Wherin is sufficiently prooued, what in this point is the office of the fathers and in like maner declared the part and duty of all obedient children. By Iohn Stockvvood, minister and preacher of Tunbridge.	Stockwood, John, d. 1610.	1589 (1589)	STC 23277; ESTC S105880	52,324	112

as but also sought to be countenanced and defended aneuident token of the great corruption of our age of such as otherwise want not their due praise for ciusll conuersation and behauiour Among these is not the last nor least the too vsuall bad custome of childrens marrieng without the consent and allowance of their parentes a sinne that nature it selfe abborreth and all writers of the better note in all ages vtterlie disalowed and yet of the greater number holden and taken for no fault at all whose error in iudgment arising for the most part of ignorance I haue fasthfully laboured by all sufficsent kind of proofes in this writing to disprooue the which not vnfitly nor nigh my purpose and meaning at the leastwise offensiuely I haue tearmed a Bartholmew fairing respecting the time and the great resort that yearly come vp to the fair who now if they list may haue a nouell of small prices but yet of much value to bestow vpon themselues their children their friends worthy I hope of their reading and much more of their practise as their seueral places callings shall require And I haue bene the more willing to enter into this course and vndersaken this matter that I might discharge some part of a promise vnto diuerse my godly friends of Kent and Sussex which are towards the right honourable and vertuous Earle of Huntington vnto whom I also my selfe am bound in all dutifulnes in the Lord who by their due right may iustly claim the same as my hand of whom they haue all so well deserued and vnto whom I am sure this treatise will come welcome Howsoeuer it fall out of some to be misliked for concerning them I am fully persuaded as Ioshua speaketh of himselfe and his Ioshua 24.16 That they and their houses will serue the Lord. And I make no doubt of alother zealous Christians but that this labour shall be well thought off It is growen I consesse albeit vnto no great yet much bigger bulke then when I began it I supposed it should the Lord hauing giuen a further bles●ing vnto it then I looked for whereby I am comforted that he will of lake mercie direct it vnto the good and benefit of his Church Eloquence and rethoricall florishings with filed wordes and braue phrases are not here to be expected and looked for as beeing such flowers the which neuer grewe in my barren plaine and homely country garden yet may the hearbs that here are to be found though not carrieng any outward gay and gallant shew yeeld an wholsome and pleasant smell in the nostrels of all godly parents worn not in the hands but in the hearts and minds of all louing and dutifull children the which should henceforth of conscience and knowledge put into diligent vse and practise this most necessarie and waightie point of dutie the which hither to of ignorance and lacke of teaching hath of the greater number bene neglected foreslowed and ouerpassed Vnfeignedlie wishing your knowledge and practise of all necessarie duties Iohn Stockwood That Mariages are not to be made without the consent of Parentes AMong many other vices wherewith the worlde at this day is full fraughted insomuch that the verie elements themselues together with the rest of the creatures as S. Paule in his 8 Cap. Rom. 8.20.21.22.23 vnto the Romans doth teach vs doe groane vnder the burthen of them looking for a change from the vanitie whereunto they are made subiect through the sinne of man that they may be restored vnto the glorious libertie of the sonnes of God this one is neither the least nor the last whereby youth for the most part is growne vnto such a passe that forgetting al childlike affection and dutifull obedience vnto father and mother in the highest point of subiection the which they owe vnto them in this life and whervpon dependeth their making or marring as they say together with the continuall ioy or sorrow of their parentes they whollie follow their own will and let out the raines vnto their owne vnbrideled vnsetled lusts making matches according to their own fickle fantasies and choosing vnto themselues yokefellowes after the outward deceiuable direction of the eie nothing regarding the sounde aduice of a minde guided with the knowledge feare of God the which counselleth to respect the inwarde graces and ornamentes of the soule not to be enamoured with the outward garnishing beauty br●●uerie and decking of the bodie And here of it commeth to passe Gen. 6.1 that men in their mariages following the maners of the sons of the first forlorne world seeing the daughters of men to be beautifull pleasing vnto the eie take vnto themselues of all that they like not waiting nor staieng for the choise of their parents by whose authoritie if they ought to be directed in the matters of smaller waight and lesse importance If obedience due vnto parents in the smallest matters much more in the greater as now is so shamelesse and void of grace that he dare to denie how much more are they then to be ruled by their graue aduice in this which chiefly concerneth Gods glorie their owne welfare the chearing and reioicing of them that haue begotten them But like as in the first age of the world this sin is in the place of Genesis before recited reckoned vp by the holie Ghost for one of the principall causes that mooued God to set wide open the windowes of heauen and to poure downe raine in such fearfull aboundance as that in the raging force swelling streame of the same man with all other creatures miserably perished those onely excepted the which were preserued in the Arke so questiōles we do owe most of the plagues wherewith now a daies God punisheth this present age and in the end will in fearfull maner consume the same vnto this great and maine sin of children their matching in mariage without the counsaile and aduice nay spite of the teeth of their godly parentes For mariage being the meanes the which God himselfe hath ordained and sanctified for the propagation and increase of mankind that being taken in hand in his feare a godly seed being multiplied growen vp here on earth the same may be blessed to the constitution making of a Church the which may serue him in holines and righteousnes when the same is taken in hand with the breach of his commandement so far off is it that any blessing is to be hoped for that contrariwise his hot indignation and heauie curse hangeth ouer that house familie Mariage taken in hand with the breach of God commandement can not prosper wher the parties which are the principall pillers and vpholders of the same are linked andtied together in such a bād of wedlock whose links inclosings are not fastened and coupled together with the necessarie and lawfull assent and liking of the parentes whose authoritie consent ought to beare the chiefest sway and strike likewise the